Thank you so much! Great interview, I like the certainty with which Marcus said that the orchestral album is going to be released next year!

Yeah great interview, thanks for it!
Sadly i think Marcus made a mistake here. Still Hansi's voice recording is missing which keeps him busy till the end of the year, maybe even the next year. Then they have to do the mixing and mastering which can last another half year + in BG terms i guess more and then we have a delay starting from finished master recording to mass production and promotion. Which again can be up to 2-3 month (remember: Live beyond the spheres was announced in may and it will be released in july).
So in mey eyes 2019 is more realistic (Hansi also named 2019 in the latest interview). But i would be absolutely fine with an earlier release!!!

Yeah but still I hope they can be done with it next year. Only half of 2017 has passed, and they don't have many shows this year so I think Hansi could be able to finish his vocal recordings before the end of 2017. I guess composing and recording orchestral parts is what took the longest time in this whole adventure, and that should be done now, so hope is still alive for an earlier release!

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why,
They just tell you that you're on your own,
Fill your head all full of lies

Still Hansi's voice recording is missing which keeps him busy till the end of the year, maybe even the next year.

I don't know, the last gig this year is in August, even if it took him 1 month to recover his voice he would have October, November and December left to record, how many?, 8 songs? 10 songs?
I seems really doable, I want to believe

It's coming, guys... I mean, "+" or "-" a few more months or even one more year it just doesn't matter, its finally coming! And at some point this is making me a little bit sad, cause I have never been as hyped as this about a CD and maybe I will never be in my whole life after its release. Something inside me is telling me that this will be the climax for my life in musical plan... I doubt hearing something better after that, even under the name of Blind Guardian. But who knows.. Anyway, what I want to say is that I can peacefully wait till its release. On one hand I really want to hear it, but on the other - just don't want to see the end of this journey